It was a hot day and Adam and my niece had been playing in the paddling pool most of the morning.

It was perfect timing to make the water wall. With the instructions found on TinkerLab we set to work.

Problem 1) It is the first time I have noticed our fence is not flat – it is slatted. The bottles wouldn’t therefore lay flush to the fence. However, there was a small area where the bottle came into contact with the fence so it was still possible.

Problem 2) It appears we do not own a drill. Grandad normally rescues us with DIY issues so we haven’t purchased one yet. We have several screwdrivers so it would have to be a manual job.

Problem 3) We also don’t own any screws! Despite having around 20 screwdrivers of varying sizes there wasn’t a screw in sight in the garage. A quick phonecall to Nana solved the issue.

Problem 4) As soon as the children saw I was busy they wanted to investigate! Screwdrivers + hammers + scissors = children magnet.

After a lot of experimenting we managed to get two bottles attached to the wall before Adam and Beth wanted to test the water wall out.

Whilst the children were distracted with lunch I added two more bottles.

It didn’t take Beth long to discover that you could rearrange the bottles.

The plan is to extend the water wall throughout the summer.

I wonder how big our water wall will become!

UPDATE: Read about the latest development with our toddler water wall here.

I LOVE your water wall! We started one last year and decided to go all ‘high tec’ with pipes etc but never got around to finishing! I will have to get it done soon so that the kids can play while I just sit
x x